Me, yesterday, when passed with about 1" clearance by a racing snake in Richmond Park.
"Closer please!"
"What"
"Can you get closer next time ?"
"Mumble mumble"
"You were too close."
"Where's your helmet ?"
"OH FUCK OFF."
I chased him down (I was out for a slow pootle) and took issue with him on this. His response ?
"I'm a professional bike rider. I know what I'm doing."
Twat.
Well done Hatters. Good on you Sir.
"Where's your helmet?" What a knob. It's up to an individual what they wear, and I say to people who, when they ask me "I hope you wear a helmet", what a sorry state we're in that
we, as cyclists, feel the weight of social guilt and must 'protect ourselves' because "Cycling's dangerous", when it's car drivers who have made the roads more dangerous, and if cyclists received more protection from the law, the perception of cycling = dangerous, would diminish.
Professional bike rider – well bloody act like one. He could have just said: "I apologise, I'm sorry."